An Organizing Female with a Briefcase
Barbara Wootton, political economy and social justice, 1920-1950∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4348346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Jacobs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 431-446 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020601022329 |
| OpenAlex | W2043704957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Barbara Frances Adam Wootton (1897–1988), Baroness Wootton of Abinger, was born into an academic family and was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she won First Class honours and a research scholarship to the London School of Economics before returning to Girton where she lectured during the First World War. She left Cambridge for London and labour socialist politics in the early 1920s. This article analyses her economic and political argument during the inter‐war period, particularly with regard to questions of full employment, a planned economy and her work for an internationalist polity, a Federal Union of nation states. Her ideas were intrinsic to a democratic socialist plan for social justice resonant in Labour’s social welfare policies of the post‐war period. Her internationalist activities anticipated the creation of the European Economic Community and the European Union
Communism · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Socialism · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |